Healthy Flora Creates A Happy Gut!

By Dr. Amy Davis, MD

When intestinal flora is healthy, it favorably impacts your overall health and vice versa. Understanding how to rebuild your flora is key to improving your digestion, ability to fight infections and a healthy weight for starters.

The flora (trillions of microbes that inhabit your intestines) is important for many reasons:

Digestion

Vitamin production – especially the B’s which are so important for energy

Immune Support

Prevention of food allergies

Neurotransmitter production – serotonin which helps us to feel good & sleep.

It’s a balancing act between “Healthy” and “Unhealthy” microorganisms. Dysbiosis, a term used to describe overgrowth of undesirable bacteria or yeast in the gut, results when the unhealthy flora “wins”. Common symptoms that may indicate flora imbalance include bloating after meals, reflux, gas, burping, indigestion, food intolerances, craving, frequent infections lasting too long, irritable bowel, diarrhea and constipation.

The Standard American Diet which is high in sugars, carbohydrates and processed foods promotes dysbiosis.

Birth – Mom’s flora matters! A healthy mom who delivers vaginally provides her infant with healthy flora. A mom with unhealthy flora is unable to provide that for her baby. C-section babies don’t pass through the birth canal to pick up the mothers flora.

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